The African American Non-Resident Fatherhood Program

非裔美国人非居民父亲计划

• 批准号: 9061440
• 负责人: Wrenetha A Julion
• 金额: $ 52.19万
• 依托单位: RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-27 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9061440
• 关键词: 5 year old; Address; African American; Age; Area; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Birth; Businesses; Characteristics; Child; Child Behavior; Child Development; Child Rearing; Child Support; Church; Cities; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Competence; Control Groups; Criminal Justice; Day center care; Development; Emotional; Evidence based intervention; Experimental Designs; Family; Father-Child Relations; Fathers; Future Generations; Gender; Goals; Health; Health Promotion; Home environment; Hospitals; Household; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Life; Measures; Mediating; Modeling; Mothers; Newborn Infant; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Parents; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Problem Solving; Public Health; Randomized; Randomized Clinical Trials; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Request for Applications; Research; Research Support; Role; Schools; Self Efficacy; Side; Site; Social Development; Social support; Sports; Stress; System; Testing; Time; Training; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Unmarried Father; Visit; base; behavioral outcome; community center; community setting; demographics; design; divorce/separation; early childhood; efficacy testing; ethnic disparity; father child interaction; father role; fatherhood; financial literacy; health disparity; health equity; improved; informant; innovation; interest; intervention effect; meetings; programs; psychologic; psychological outcomes; role model; satisfaction; self esteem; skills; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for a study to examine the effects of an intervention aimed at increasing paternal involvement in African American non-resident fathers. Although the number of children living without fathers has grown nationally, the greatest percentage of children living apart from their fathers is found among African American (AA) families. Two thirds of all AA children in the United States live in households without their biological father. Father presence is important to the emotional, social and developmental wellbeing of children throughout the child's life. Positive father involvement is also important to the health and wellbeing of fathers themselves. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to test the Building Bridges to Fatherhood (BBTF) program, an innovative video-based fatherhood program developed with the guidance of a Fathers Advisory Council. The purpose of the BBTF program is to increase and sustain paternal involvement among AA fathers and their young children (2-5 years). The BBTF program will be tested in a randomized clinical trial among 180 families of young children across 2 large predominantly African American areas (west-side and south-side) of a large Midwestern city. Fathers will be recruited via key informants from multiple community sites (i.e. churches, barbershops, community centers, schools, day care centers, local business establishments, dry cleaners, and sports venues) and randomly assigned to either the BBTF intervention or a Financial Literacy (FL) attention control group. Participants will be assessed at pre-intervention, 12 weeks and 24 weeks using self-report measures completed by fathers and the child's biological mother and participate in a booster session at 18 weeks. Dependent variables include: paternal involvement (material and in-kind [non-monetary] support and direct father/child interaction), father parenting competence (self-efficacy, satisfaction, parenting skills and knowledge), father psychological wellbeing (self-esteem, general and racial stress), father communication and problem solving, and father and maternal reports of child behavior and development (cognitive, emotional, and social). Further, father-mother relationship quality will be examined for its mediating effect on fathers' outcomes and paternal involvement. This application builds on our prior research: (1) refining an effective and culturally relevant parent training model so that it has enhanced social and contextual validity for African American non- resident fathers, and (2) providing a real-world intervention for fathers that has as its primary aim to facilitate and sustain father involvement i early childhood, before father estrangement becomes entrenched and intractable. This study is consistent with the NINR goals for the 21st century to address cultural and ethnic disparities in health promotion and intervention activities by developing innovative, culturally responsive, evidence-based interventions that are tailored to the individual.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求支持一项研究，以检查旨在增加非裔美国人非居民父亲参与的干预措施的影响。虽然没有父亲的儿童人数在全国范围内有所增加，但与父亲分开生活的儿童比例最高的是非洲裔美国人家庭。在美国，三分之二的AA儿童生活在没有生父的家庭中。父亲的存在对孩子一生的情感、社会和发展健康都很重要。父亲的积极参与对父亲本身的健康和福祉也很重要。因此，该项目的目的是测试“搭建父亲之桥”方案，这是在父亲咨询理事会指导下开发的一个创新的视频父亲方案。BBTF计划的目的是增加和维持AA父亲及其幼儿（2-5岁）的父亲参与。BBTF计划将在一项随机临床试验中进行测试，该试验将在中西部一个大城市的两个主要非洲裔美国人地区（西部和南部）的180个幼儿家庭中进行。父亲将通过来自多个社区站点（即教堂，理发店，社区中心，学校，日托中心，当地商业机构，干洗店和体育场馆）的关键信息提供者招募，并随机分配到BBTF干预组或金融扫盲（FL）注意力控制组。参与者将在干预前，12周和24周使用父亲和孩子的生母完成的自我报告措施进行评估，并在18周时参加助推器会议。因变量包括：父亲的参与（物质和实物[非货币]支持和直接的父亲/子女互动），父亲养育子女 能力（自我效能、满意度、育儿技能和知识）、父亲心理健康（自尊、一般和种族压力）、父亲沟通和解决问题以及父亲和母亲对儿童行为和发展（认知、情感和社会）的报告。此外，父母关系质量将被检查其父亲的结果和父亲参与的中介作用。该应用程序建立在我们先前的研究基础上：（1）完善有效的和文化相关的父母培训模型，使其增强了非裔美国人非居民父亲的社会和背景有效性，以及（2）为父亲提供现实世界的干预，其主要目的是促进和维持父亲在幼儿期的参与，在父亲疏远变得根深蒂固和棘手之前。本研究符合NINR的21世纪世纪目标，即通过开发针对个人的创新性、文化敏感性、循证干预措施，解决健康促进和干预活动中的文化和种族差异。